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feeder road

American  

noun

  1. a secondary road used to bring traffic to a major road.


Etymology

Origin of feeder road

First recorded in 1955–60

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It was the only one, just beside the gas stations and the feeder road and the taqueria.

From The New Yorker Nov. 5, 2018

The dog had dragged the skull from an overgrown nearby oil field on Calder, a deserted I-45 feeder road, and brought it home to show the couple’s toddler.

From The Guardian Jun. 12, 2018

Six passengers — a couple from Taiwan, two women from New Zealand, a man from Chicago and me — clambered in to head 73 miles up the Elliott Highway, the feeder road to the Dalton.

From Washington Post Apr. 7, 2016

Instead of driving to the DiZi offices, he went down a feeder road to a dingy strip mall that had offices instead of dry cleaners.

From Slate Sep. 18, 2014

But there was nothing to do but to take the feeder road to the left, because the devil we could see was more dangerous than the devil we couldn't.

From Highways in Hiding by Smith, George Oliver

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